[SPN] DCBB 2012: Queen of Nothing - Masterpost
Title: Queen of Nothing
Author: thirstyrobot
Artist: angrydumpling (better known as scarsaw on tumblr)
Fandom/Genre: SPN, post-Season 5 missing year AU, with cases and roadtrips and motels!
Pairing(s): Deanna/Castiel (past Deanna/Lisa)
Rating: R
Word Count: ~20,900
Warnings: genderswap (always-a-girl), language, canon-typical violence, sex, [minor trigger warnings,]one brief mention of Deanna trying to give herself a tattoo as a teenager that could be triggering for self-injury, a couple of instances of implied homophobic bullying (non-violent and not a major plot point) in high school, [past canon character death]Sam is dead and stays dead.
Summary: Deanna couldn't make it work with Lisa and left with Cas when he showed up in Indiana. Now she's got a thousand empty spaces where Sam should be and Cas has a thousand more where Heaven should be, but the job is the job and the road is the road and they're in it together.
Mini bang for deancasbigbang 2012.
I wasn't born for anything
Wasn't born to say anything
I'm just here now and soon I'll be gone
I'm nobody's baby
I'm everybody's girl
I'm the queen of nothing
I'm the king of the world
--'King of the World,' First Aid Kit
Links: LJ: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
AO3 (for PDF purposes!)
Art masterpost by angrydumpling
Acknowledgements:
Thank you to the_reverand, triedunture, and brokentoy for helping me make this better! Any failings are not their fault.
And of course a HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you to angrydumpling for being more awesome to work with than I could have dared hope in my wildest dreams, and going way way way above and beyond what was required and doing SO MUCH awesome art and just being fantastic and fun and amazing. ♥
POSSIBLY SPOILERY Notes:
Many months ago, I decided to start a project I called 'The Slowest Fanmix in History', a series of AU fics based on songs. This was (and still is, I guess) track two (wasn't kidding about slow). I heard First Aid Kit's 'King of the World' and was just like THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A SONG ABOUT GIRL!DEAN. Which, if you listen to it, you'll realize I stole half the events in the story from the song. And I kept sending the_reverand bits and pieces as I wrote them and it just got longer and longer and then bigbang signups came around, and there was flailing and triedunture had to hold my hand a little bit too but I didn't give up and here we are.
So the soundtrack to this is pretty much 'King of the World' on infinite repeat, but I was also listening to Al Scorch's Tired Ghostly Town tons and tons, and their song 'Two Flags,' while not plot-related in any other way, has the line, "when she stops breathing in her sleep, she swears he calls her name," and I stole that too. Anyway, here's both the songs. Please support the artists if you choose to download them.
King of the World:
Two Flags:
All the locations visited in the story, other than Cicero and Sioux Falls, are places I've been. The writing happened over a massive transition in my life, where I moved from my hometown to Minnesota, and Paul Bunyan Land was one of the first places we went because it seemed like such a ridiculous thing. To my knowledge, there's never been anything happening there like what goes on in the story, but it looks just like somewhere a case might happen. They legit have a mystery spot (with a misspelled sign!) and a giant talking Paul Bunyan and a haunted mine bunch of stuff that seems to be TOTALLY unrelated to anything lumberjack-y because the park moved at some point and got attached to this antique hoarder's pioneer village thing and it's just really fucking weird but great in that kind of sad way? You would think the entire story takes place here for all the attention I've given it, but I'm fascinated with the place.
Anyway, please enjoy, please check out the art, and please let us know what you think!
Author: thirstyrobot
Artist: angrydumpling (better known as scarsaw on tumblr)
Fandom/Genre: SPN, post-Season 5 missing year AU, with cases and roadtrips and motels!
Pairing(s): Deanna/Castiel (past Deanna/Lisa)
Rating: R
Word Count: ~20,900
Warnings: genderswap (always-a-girl), language, canon-typical violence, sex, [minor trigger warnings,]one brief mention of Deanna trying to give herself a tattoo as a teenager that could be triggering for self-injury, a couple of instances of implied homophobic bullying (non-violent and not a major plot point) in high school, [past canon character death]Sam is dead and stays dead.
Summary: Deanna couldn't make it work with Lisa and left with Cas when he showed up in Indiana. Now she's got a thousand empty spaces where Sam should be and Cas has a thousand more where Heaven should be, but the job is the job and the road is the road and they're in it together.
Mini bang for deancasbigbang 2012.
I wasn't born for anything
Wasn't born to say anything
I'm just here now and soon I'll be gone
I'm nobody's baby
I'm everybody's girl
I'm the queen of nothing
I'm the king of the world
--'King of the World,' First Aid Kit
Links: LJ: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
AO3 (for PDF purposes!)
Art masterpost by angrydumpling
Acknowledgements:
Thank you to the_reverand, triedunture, and brokentoy for helping me make this better! Any failings are not their fault.
And of course a HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you to angrydumpling for being more awesome to work with than I could have dared hope in my wildest dreams, and going way way way above and beyond what was required and doing SO MUCH awesome art and just being fantastic and fun and amazing. ♥
POSSIBLY SPOILERY Notes:
Many months ago, I decided to start a project I called 'The Slowest Fanmix in History', a series of AU fics based on songs. This was (and still is, I guess) track two (wasn't kidding about slow). I heard First Aid Kit's 'King of the World' and was just like THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A SONG ABOUT GIRL!DEAN. Which, if you listen to it, you'll realize I stole half the events in the story from the song. And I kept sending the_reverand bits and pieces as I wrote them and it just got longer and longer and then bigbang signups came around, and there was flailing and triedunture had to hold my hand a little bit too but I didn't give up and here we are.
So the soundtrack to this is pretty much 'King of the World' on infinite repeat, but I was also listening to Al Scorch's Tired Ghostly Town tons and tons, and their song 'Two Flags,' while not plot-related in any other way, has the line, "when she stops breathing in her sleep, she swears he calls her name," and I stole that too. Anyway, here's both the songs. Please support the artists if you choose to download them.
King of the World:
Two Flags:
All the locations visited in the story, other than Cicero and Sioux Falls, are places I've been. The writing happened over a massive transition in my life, where I moved from my hometown to Minnesota, and Paul Bunyan Land was one of the first places we went because it seemed like such a ridiculous thing. To my knowledge, there's never been anything happening there like what goes on in the story, but it looks just like somewhere a case might happen. They legit have a mystery spot (with a misspelled sign!) and a giant talking Paul Bunyan and a haunted mine bunch of stuff that seems to be TOTALLY unrelated to anything lumberjack-y because the park moved at some point and got attached to this antique hoarder's pioneer village thing and it's just really fucking weird but great in that kind of sad way? You would think the entire story takes place here for all the attention I've given it, but I'm fascinated with the place.
Anyway, please enjoy, please check out the art, and please let us know what you think!